ARC has “paused” future rounds of grant schemes pending outcomes of its NCGP Policy Review. All schemes previously scheduled to open before 1 July this year will go ahead. But next year’s Laureates, Industry Fellowships & Discovery Indigenous won’t. See table👇 & www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...

Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇

“People who had gotten COVID-19 at least twice experienced higher rates of short and long-term health effects, including heart & brain issues, compared to those only infected once.” Rather than “building immunity”, repeat Covid infections are slowly killing us. #LongCovid time.com/6553340/covi...

Some limitations - always wave THOSE around, marketing tells me: Sharing research via shortlinks (like bitly) is NOT tracked on Bluesky atm. For this to happen the service has to make a change first (we're chatting with them so don't all @ them about it.) Use the DOI or direct link and you're good.

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

Got some fun science coming out this week that I spent the weekend writing about, in particular from the #RadioAstronomy folks, so I reckon you should all go follow some radio astronomers. @taramurphy.bsky.social has a starter pack going where you can find us + pass it on! go.bsky.app/KGBAs4D

🔭🧪 Things that make me happy: This is the first image from Mars, taken July 1965. Why does it look like this? Because computers were slow and it was going to be hours before the computer processed it enough to make an image. The scientists and engineers were impatient. 1/5

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography

Well ain’t this just… WICKED! 💚🩷 It’s amazing to see the growth in the number of folks with qualifications #physics and #astronomy in Oz 🇦🇺✨

Folks! I’ve updated the Aussie/NZ Space Communities starter pack with lots of new faces joining in the last few weeks. So many (100+) awesome astronomers, researchers, artists, students, photographers, and more to enrich your timeline. These folks are my Friday recommendation! Pass it on! 🔭📡🧪

Nice blog post from ESO about the constellation Crux (the Southern Cross) that's always in our skies down here. It lives on many flags, but more importantly, it has played a role in many Southern Hemisphere Indigenous Astronomy songlines, lore, and stories. It's got some good stars / objects! 🔭

It's Friday! So it's time to share this list of awesome Aussie and NZ folks from our region's space communities (astronomy, space exploration, humanities, artists, astrophotographers, etc.). Recommend giving these folks a follow! 🔭🧪 go.bsky.app/QPStoRT

Watch a star get destroyed by a supermassive black hole in the first simulation of its kind theconversation.com/watch-a-star... @danastro.bsky.social

Friends, the #RaiseTheStipend petition closes tonight ▶️ www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Please, if you are yet to sign, consider doing it now. Most importantly, even if you’ve signed, send it to family & friends now – ask them to help. Thanks to everyone who has supported this!

The IAU x RadioLab are running a competition to name Earth’s quasi moon. See the link below to enter and/or find out what a quasi moon is. woobox.com/wc2qxd

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Today I was introduced to what was described as the Worst Plot In Exoplanet Science, and frankly, it is a work of art

My colleague and I will be speaking at an upcoming Monash alumni event: Learn how new discoveries in Physics help us in treating lung diseases and uncovering the secrets of Dying Stars. Register now! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/from-savin...

Reasons to never type or upload anything private or proprietary to an unsecured and unregulated LLM arstechnica.com/security/202...

The familiar part of proposal procrastination/writing where you have 10 stack exchange tabs open with variations on latex questions…

For those curious about what goes into writing a paper, I have written a "Behind the Paper" blog post to accompany my latest publication. You can read it here: communities.springernature.com/posts/using-...

Monash Astro's Dr. Taïssa Danilovich @stellaralchemist.bsky.social leads a study of a binary system made up of a Sun-like star and a dying star shedding its outer layers. Chemical footprints in ejected material unveil a highly elliptical orbit, bringing the stars close once a millennium.

A wonderful example of how #astrochemistry can help understand stellar evolution! Very happy to be part of this work!

My paper is out today in Nature Astronomy! You can read a summary the press release here: www.monash.edu/science/news... If you want to see the paper in all its scientific details, you can do so here: rdcu.be/du204 More details in thread...

The IAU ran a competition to find names for a bunch of exoplanets and their stars that will soon be observed in high resolution by the James Webb Space Telescope. You can peruse the (truely international) list here: www.nameexoworlds.iau.org/2022approved...

Some bonus pics

My gingerbread this year... The VLA!!

How embarrassing 😕 www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12...

Ministers will no longer approve Australian Research Council grants under bid to stop ‘political interference’

This sort of thing makes me very glad that we have NASA’s ADS in astro academia. So much neater, more reliable and easier to use than GScholar. And also free. Every time I look at paid tools for citation tracking, I dispair.